Agenda and minutes

Registration and Licensing Committee - Monday, 13th July, 2015 10.00 am

Venue: Port Talbot Civic Centre - Committee Room 1/2

Contact: Charlotte-Louise Davies  Committee/Member Admin Officer

Items
No. Item

1.

To receive any declarations of interest from Members.

Minutes:

The following Member made a declaration of interest at the commencement of the meeting:

 

Councillor J. Evans        -          Report of thehead of Legal Services–Urgent Item – Hickney Carraige Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Case 2– as he was known to the applicant

 

2.

Access to Meetings

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

that pursuant to Section 100A(4) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded for the following items of business which involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 12 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the above Act.

 

3.

Application for Grant of a Street Trading Consent - Case 1

Minutes:

Members were asked to consider an application for the grant of a Street Trading Consent where the applicant has unspent convictions.

 

CASE 1

 

The applicant was present at the meeting.

 

RESOLVED:                               that the application for a Street Trading Consent be refused.

 

4.

Urgent Item

Minutes:

Because of the need to deal now with the matter contained in Minute No. 5 below, the Chairman agreed that this could be raised at today’s meeting as an Urgent Item pursuant to Section 100B (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

Reason:

 

Due to the time element.

 

5.

Urgent Item - Hackney Carriage Private Hire Vehicle Licensing - Case 2

Minutes:

Members were asked to consider an application for the grant of a hackney carriage / private hire driver licence, where the applicant did not meet the DVLA group 2 medical standards as he suffered from diabetes controlled by insulin.

 

CASE 1

 

The applicant was present at the meeting

 

RESOLVED:                                       that the item be deferred to a future meeting of the Registration and Licensing Committee, subject to additional information specifically related to the applicant driving a licensed Hackney Carriage.

- Committee reconvened into open session -

6.

Licensing Section - Annual Report pdf icon PDF 230 KB

Minutes:

Members were provided with information in relation to licensing matters for the period 2014 – 2015.

 

RESOLVED:                                       that the report be noted.